Apocalyptic Developments And News

APOCALYPTIC DEVELOPMENTS 

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Alaska, to discuss the war in Ukraine. This is a development in the apocalyptic scenario described in the posting "The End Of The World As We Know It" and the parallel posting "Inducing The Apocalypse", June 2025. We know that the Antichrist must come from what is now the European Union.

Does anyone remember the 1986 summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev? It was also held in the far north, in Iceland. While the summit was a step toward ending the Cold War, I have always felt that it was also a catalyst in the integration of the European Union. Many Europeans resented that their future was being decided for them, over their heads, by an American and a Russian. Now another summit is being held in the far north. Even though the war is in Europe, Donald Trump is doing the negotiating and no Europeans were invited. Maybe it's time for Europeans to come up with their own strong leader. Donald Trump did express support for a future joint European peacekeeping force in Ukraine.

Donald Trump has warned of  "severe consequences" if the meeting doesn't result in progress toward ending the war. A falling out between the two, or an acrimonious conclusion to the meeting, would alarm the world and be a catalyst toward the emergence of a powerful global leader who could straighten all of this out. Remember that another catalyst to the closer integration of the European Union was the unsatisfactory ending of the 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, as the two failed to reach an agreement on nuclear arms control. Several years later the European Union, as it stands today, was formed by the Maastricht Treaty.

Simply by being such a dominant global leader, Donald Trump is setting the precedent for the Antichrist. He claims to have ended the "Twelve Day War" between Israel and Iran and the shootout between India and Pakistan and much of the global economy revolves around his decisions on tariffs.

We know that the Six Day War, of 1967, began the prophetic countdown to the Return of Jesus because that was when the original city of Jerusalem came back under control of the Jews, for the first time since ancient times, as foretold by Jesus in the Gospels. The naming of this year's "Twelve Day War" makes it seem as if it must also be part of the prophetic scenario, because we know that Iran will be a participant in the future invasion of Israel that will begin the final series of wars of the world.

In another apocalyptic development, police forces in Britain are increasingly using vans with facial recognition equipment. These vans are parked on streets where there are a lot of pedestrian traffic and at events where there are a lot of people. The faces of people passing by are scanned and matched against a database of people who are wanted. Hundreds of people have been arrested already due to the vans. There has been a public backlash but the government claims that the vans are only being used for those wanted for serious crimes, not for minor crimes or issues such as failure to pay fines. But this fits perfectly with the surveillance society that we know the Antichrist will have. AI is so important to this scenario because there are not enough workers to process the vast amount of data that can now be collected about people by means such as this. But AI can quickly do the work of thousands of workers.

NEWS 

The death of James Lovell was announced this week. He never actually landed on the moon but was on two missions, Apollo 8 and 13. We saw this space program in the compound posting "The Moon", August 2023 section 5) THE APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM.

Let's rejoice that minimal damage was done to the Mezquita, or Cathedral-Mosque, in Cordoba by this week's fire. This building is priceless. This was originally built as a Mosque by the Moors. Coincidentally, our visit this week is to Morocco from where the Moors came, and an associated posting is "When The Moors Ruled Spain".

The Canadian Government has announced a major increase in military spending. Canada once planned a military aircraft that became a national icon, especially in the Toronto area. It was known as the Avro Arrow, but the project was cancelled. We saw it's story in the compound posting "Investigations", December 2018, section 38) CANADA'S AVRO ARROW. I wonder if the Avro Arrow project might be revived.